Word: tientsin
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...early military training at Whampoa Academy, the Nationalist school set up with Soviet Russian help in the 1920s. One of his instructors was Chiang Kaishek. Between 1947 and 1949, Lin led his new Manchurian army southward to crush Chiang's forces at Mukden, Peking and Tientsin...
...Shut off the last trickle of goods to Red China and Manchuria, forcing some already-loaded ships to discharge cargo. The order was specifically worded to catch four ships now at sea, including the Isbrandtsen line's Flying Clipper, reported heading for Tientsin with a cargo of steel, tin plate and pipe...
...post by the State Department-in Nairobi, Kenya, on Africa's east coast. It was a job which seemed to have nothing to do with Communism or the Far East-the specialities on which he had concentrated in 25 years of foreign service at consulates in Mukden, Tientsin and Vladivostok. Outspoken Careerman Ward was outspokenly disgruntled. He had not even been officially informed of his appointment, he grumbled. "For all I know," he said "I might be going as first chauffeur or telephone operator." Actually, he would be consul general...
Conversation in a Foxhole. Peace, of a sort, came to the 1st Marine Division. Its first postwar station was Tientsin, China, where it helped Chinese forces manage Japan's surrender. One regiment returned to the U.S. and was disbanded; most of the career fighters were sent to Guam, where they lived in wretched ramshackle huts. On Guam, they came to know better the tall, quiet, professional general whom they had "taken aboard" in China as assistant division commander...
Later that same day, McConaughy and his staff boarded a train for Tientsin and the U.S. liner General W. H. Gordon. Last week, the General Gordon nosed into Hong Kong Harbor bearing U.S. diplomatic personnel, and 660 other refugees from 26 nations...